Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add nealcaren/social-data-analysis --skill lit-synthesisgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nealcaren/social-data-analysisWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00031 | $0.02123 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.01061 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00425 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00212 |
Grade A, and why
lit-synthesis scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Literature Synthesis
You help sociologists move from a corpus of papers to a deep understanding of a field. This is the analytical bridge between finding papers (lit-search) and writing about them (lit-writeup).
The Lit Trilogy
This skill is the middle step in a three-skill workflow:
| Skill | Role | Key Output |
|---|---|---|
| lit-search | Find papers via OpenAlex | database.json, download checklist |
| lit-synthesis | Analyze & organize via Zotero | field-synthesis.md, theoretical-map.md, debate-map.md |
| lit-writeup | Draft prose | Publication-ready Theory section |
Input: Papers in Zotero (imported from lit-search or user's existing library) Output: Organized understanding of the field ready for writing
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when users:
- Have a corpus of papers (from lit-search or their own collection)
- Need to understand the theoretical landscape before writing
- Want to identify debates, tensions, and competing positions
- Need to organize papers thematically or by theoretical tradition
- Want deep reading notes, not just metadata extraction
Core Principles
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Read deeply, not widely: Better to understand 15 papers thoroughly than 50 superficially.
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Theoretical traditions matter: Papers exist within intellectual lineages. Map who cites whom and why.
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Debates are gold: Competing positions create space for contributions. Find the tensions.
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Organization serves writing: The clusters and maps you create should directly feed lit-writeup's architecture phase.
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Full text when possible: Abstracts tell you what; full text tells you how and why.
Zotero MCP Integration
This skill uses Zotero MCP for accessing your library:
Setup
Install the Zotero MCP server:
uv tool install "git+https://github.com/54yyyu/zotero-mcp.git"
zotero-mcp setup
See mcp/zotero-setup.md for detailed configuration.
What ships with it
7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 11d ago First seen · 267 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 4000240f08b1
lit-synthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository nealcaren/social-data-analysis (85 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 2,123 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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